posted at 8:01 pm on December 16, 2012 by Allahpundit

President Obama “is going to have a bill to lead on,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The measure, she said, would aim to take “weapons of war off the streets of our cities.” “It can be done,” she added.

“It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession, not retroactively, prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets,” Feinstein said of her proposal.

Schumer noted mass shootings earlier this year in Colorado, where a masked gunman killed 12 in a movie theater, Oregon, where a 22-year-old man killed two with an assault rifle, and Wisconsin, where the estranged husband of a spa employee, killed three people.

“Second, of course, it involved children,” Schumer said of the Newtown killings…

“Reinstate the assault weapons ban, limit the size of clips to maybe no more than 10 bullets per clip, and the third would be to make it harder for mentally unstable people to get guns,” he said.

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They all say something must be done – the same thing they say after each horrific mass murder. But nothing is ever done. The truth is that Capitol Hill has been paralyzed on gun issues for most of this generation, having last approved major gun laws, including the “Brady bill” and the now-expired assault weapons ban, in 1994. Since then, the needle has moved toward fewer restrictions on guns and ammunition…

[Rep. Carolyn] McCarthy has said she’s willing to embarrass Obama publicly if he doesn’t take up the issue – and that’s what she conveyed to the White House before Friday’s killings.

“I agree this is not the time to talk about [gun control],” she told POLITICO’s Reid Epstein. “It should have been talked about years ago when we started having these mass shootings. It should have been done when Gabby Giffords was shot.”

Jamie Foxx, one of the industry’s biggest stars, said Saturday as he promoted Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming ultra-violent spaghetti Western-style film about slavery, “Django Unchained,” that actors can’t ignore the fact that movie violence can influence people.

“We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn’t have a sort of influence,” Foxx said in an interview on Saturday. “It does.”

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In a discussion about America’s mental health system, Crowley and asked Hickenlooper whether the “culture of guns” creates a situation in which gun crimes are inevitable. “There is very little you can do to stop a determined person, do you feel that way,” Crowley asked.

Hickenlooper agreed wholeheartedly, and said we need to have “more people paying attention and trying to detect folks that are unstable” or “on the verge of real trouble.”

He went on to say our violent culture, including the “depiction of assault weapons again and again” in video games and the media contributes to gun crimes. The governor also suggested that the criminals might, in their minds, “become part of the video games” when they carry out these tragic crimes.

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I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me…

I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am Jason Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness…

I don’t believe my son belongs in jail. The chaotic environment exacerbates Michael’s sensitivity to sensory stimuli and doesn’t deal with the underlying pathology. But it seems like the United States is using prison as the solution of choice for mentally ill people. According to Human Rights Watch, the number of mentally ill inmates in U.S. prisons quadrupled from 2000 to 2006, and it continues to rise—in fact, the rate of inmate mental illness is five times greater (56 percent) than in the non-incarcerated population.

No one wants to send a 13-year old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle animal collection to jail. But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options. Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom. And we wring our hands and say, “Something must be done.”

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Brooks said that, while he greatly admires Mayor Bloomberg, he is unsure that a big city mayor is the most effective spokesperson for the cause of gun control.

“One of the problems with this debate; it’s become a values war. It’s perceived as urban versus rural. And, frankly, it’s perceived as an attack on the lifestyle of rural people by urban people. And, I admire Mayor Bloomberg enormously – there’s probably no politician I agree with more – but it’s counterproductive to have him as the spokesperson for the gun law movement. There has to be more respect and more people, frankly, from rural and red America who are participants in this.”

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“I’m not sure so — and I’m sure I’ll get nailed for this — I wouldn’t want one person in a school armed, ready for this kind of thing,” Bennett said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“It has to be someone who is trained, it has to be someone who is responsible,” he said. “But my God, if you can prevent this kind of thing.”

“Every mass killing of more than three people in recent history has been in a place where guns were prohibited, except for one,” he said, arguing for looser gun laws so more people can be armed for self-protection. “They know no one will be armed.”

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It gets even better. Earlier today, I wanted to post this song on FB-but when I put it into the Youtube search I was getting songs that weren’t it. I stopped and grabbed a section of the Sat/Sun WSJ-that has the book reviews etc…and my eye caught one of the book reviews.

The book was a bio of an early 20th century vaudeville star. She was known as the…’I Don’t Care’ girl. It was her signature song. That review gave me enough info on the song to locate it on YT.
God wanted me to put that on my wall.
wow.

I’m the dangerous one? I am not a gun-loving, war-mongering fake christian like all of you here and unlike most of you I have no arsenal that a deranged kid can steal and go gun down sweet little six & seven years olds

How grotesquely naive, and how indicative of an abject ignorance of the 2nd Amendment.
That wasn’t put in there so Americans could freely hunt. Jackass.

blatantblue on December 17, 2012 at 12:00 AM

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Years ago at my place of employment, I had put up a hand made poster that stated as follows:

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not about the hobby/recreational/sporting uses of firearms. It is about the common American citizen being enabled to function as their own first-line of defense, against a tyrannical government, and common criminals.

The Sig, with the rounded corners almost swayed me. The Commander, I think.

cozmo on December 16, 2012 at 11:52 PM

For carry here in AZ and my build, the Commander is just too big to comfortably carry concealed. I can carry the P238 in a pocket holster; it doesn’t have the firepower of a 45, but it has the advantage of conceal-ability.

I’m the dangerous one? I am not a gun-loving, war-mongering fake christian like all of you here and unlike most of you I have no arsenal that a deranged kid can steal and go gun down sweet little six & seven years olds

DBear on December 16, 2012 at 11:22 PM

Your ideals have killed millions more than Adam Lanza could ever dream of. Your ideals kill millions of children every year. Pretending that you give a **** about kids is ***ing despicable, but entirely predictable.

…people at work call you an idiot behind your back too…don’t they?
From experiencing you here…I can picture you at the workplace…and unless you just clean out porta-potties by yourself…I just know!…Don’t you?….you’re a certified idiot!

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real xtians care for the poor and the people actually BORN not just fake xtians who wanna play sex police

someone who wants to go to war with a billion people because they pray to a different phony god than yours and worship a just as violent fairy tale book other than yours

DBear on December 17, 2012 at 12:15 AM

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Thanks for eventually responding.

We didn’t go to war with the Taliban because they have a different religion. We did it because they aided and abetted Bin Laden in setting up the 9/11/2001 attacks. I won’t explain why we went after Bin Laden; should be obvious.

The Christians I know help the poor, but more importantly they first and foremost have a relationship with God. If it wasn’t for that “relationship with God” thing, most of them wouldn’t care for the poor, or anyone else for that matter.
But I need to qualify that, by stating that real Christians don’t look to use government as a “tool”, to “legally” take money from the rich so they can give it to the poor. They give of themselves and let the stingy rich be stingy.

Ya know what really frosts my weenie?! Whenever something like this happens which is, despite what you hear otherwise, extremely rare. You have the usual suspects of soulless opportunistic ghouls crawl out from under their slime covered rocks and promote their pet cause. There’s three groups.

1.) You have the liberal and RINO pundits in the media. 2.) You have the elected officials. 3.) You have the celebutards.

Two dishonorable mentions here. If you didn’t think David Frum was already a jackass, go check out Twitchy. It’s absolutely shameless, even for him. Does he still claim to be a republican? Piers Morgan. He wasn’t even important enough to bring up before this. You know, it’s irritating when you have a foreigner, a guest in this country, whine and bitch about our laws. Is he even a U.S. citizen? I will not be lectured to by a snooty Brit. We kicked your asses over 200 years ago. So, your opinions don’t mean shit.

I was watching Lou Dobbs, the other day, and he listed 20 or so politicians (All Dems, of course) capitalizing on the moment. Not even 2 hours after the incident. Before the bodies are even identified and buried. Never letting a crisis go to waste. Despicable. You know what? I would trade each and every one of their worthless lives in order to bring those children back.

Lastly, you have the celebutards. Probably, the biggest hypocrites of them all. Making ultra-violent movies with heavy gun play. Rappers talking about ‘busting a cap’ in every song. Working on movie sets with armed guards. Going to premiers with armed guards. Living in gated communities with armed guards. Having their kids escorted by armed guards. Their precious lives must be protected. The rest of us, nah.